Stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice - a festive dish, which is often present on the tables. When this dish is prepared, such flavors are spread around the kitchen that no family member can resist. For the price it turns out to be inexpensive, but its taste will not be able to leave indifferent.
Classic step by step recipe
For the preparation of this dish is best to choose fleshy, juicy peppers of different colors - yellow, red, green, orange.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 12 pieces;
- minced meat - 400 grams;
- rice - 150 grams;
- vegetable oil;
- greenery;
- salt;
- 1 onion;
- 700 milliliters of 10% cream;
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- 3 cloves of garlic.
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Calories per 100 grams: 178 kcal.
- Wash peppers, remove seeds from them, clean the veins;
- Rice boil for 7 minutes in water, discard it in a colander to excess glass liquid;
- Fresh greens cut into small pieces;
- Chop onions, fry in oil for 3 minutes;
- Combine rice, onion, minced meat, greens, salt, add spices and mix;
- Peppers stuffed, cover slices with tops;
- Prepare the sauce: fry chopped onion in oil with garlic and greens, add tomato paste, cream, spices, mix and cook for 7 minutes on low heat;
- Put the vegetables in a wide saucepan, pour over the sauce and cook for 35 minutes on low heat under the lid.
Stuffed peppers are tender and juicy, and if you serve them with sour cream, such a dish will delight real men.
Pepper stuffed with minced meat and rice, baked in the oven
Stuffed peppers can be cooked not only in the pan, but also in the oven. It turns out to be even tastier and more aromatic, and all the vitamins remain in the vegetables.
Ingredients:
- pepper - 0.5 kilogram;
- butter;
- paprika;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- Stuffing - 500 grams;
- root parsley - 2 pieces;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- salt;
- 1 cup rice;
- mozzarella - 100 grams;
- greenery;
- 40 milliliters of soy sauce.
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 grams: 165 kcal.
- Diced onion fry in butter, add minced meat to it and cook for 15 minutes on low heat;
- Boil rice for 15 minutes in water, send it along with chopped greens to mince and simmer until the liquid evaporates;
- Wash peppers, cut off the tops of them, remove the seeds and put the stuffing in them;
- Mozzarella cheese cut into pieces and put on top of the stuffing;
- Cook in the oven for half an hour.
Vegetables will be very tasty, juicy and tender, if you send them to cook in a well preheated oven. The temperature should not be very high so that the pepper does not burn.
Stuffed pepper with minced meat and rice in a slow cooker
Peppers for this dish, you can choose completely different in color, size, shape - the main thing is that they are sweet and meaty.
Ingredients:
- 10 pieces of pepper;
- 2 carrots;
- multi-rice;
- 50 grams of onions;
- vegetable oil;
- 0.4 kilograms of minced meat;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- Bay leaf;
- spice;
- salt;
- 25 grams of flour;
- water;
- 0.5 cup sour cream.
Cooking time: 140 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 grams: 180 kcal.
The slow cooker is a useful helper in the kitchen that can replace a huge variety of pans, pots, stewpans. Dishes in it are no less tasty and fragrant than those prepared in the traditional way.
- Tomatoes should be put into boiling water for a few seconds, peeled off, grated, chopped onion into small pieces, grated carrots;
- Put the vegetables in the multicooker bowl, add oil to it and turn on the frying mode for 20 minutes;
- Combine minced meat with raw rice in a deep container, add ½ part of vegetables, spices, salt and mix well;
- Wash the peppers and prepare them for stuffing, put the stuffing in them and put them in the bowl, on top of the remaining vegetables;
- Dissolve sour cream in water, add spices, flour, mix and pour vegetables over the sauce;
- Add laurel leaves, finely chopped garlic to the bowl and turn on the "stewing" mode for 2 hours.
Stuffing the peppers does not need to be very tight, as in the process of cooking the rice will increase in volume and the filling will fall out.
How to Stuff Pepper with Chicken Meat, Rice and Zucchini
Rice and minced meat are very often used for cooking peppers, but if desired, the taste of the dish can be varied by other products. Zucchini makes vegetables more tender and juicy.
Ingredients:
- peppers - 6 pieces;
- minced meat - 400 grams;
- rice - 0.5 cups;
- egg - 1 piece;
- salt;
- courgette - 200 grams;
- spice;
- parsley.
Cooking time: 45 minutes.
Calories per 100 grams: 176 kcal.
Squashes need to choose young, with delicate skin. They should not be very big, because small ones are more tasty and tender.
- Peppers are thoroughly washed, their tops are cut off and all inedible parts are removed - veins, seeds;
- Zucchini is washed, cut into small cubes, laid out in a bowl, rice, minced meat, egg, finely chopped onion, greens, salt, spices and everything are mixed well added to it;
- Vegetables are stuffed with minced meat, wrapped in foil and put in the oven for 30 minutes so that they are cooked, and then they prepare for another 10 minutes without foil so that they brown.
If the house has run out of rice, but other products are available, you can cook vegetables without it, it turns out not worse.
The recipe for stuffed peppers with minced meat without rice in Greek
Stuffed pepper - a dish that is loved in many countries, but in each it is prepared according to a special recipe. In Greece, the filling is prepared without rice, but with mint and other vegetables.
Ingredients:
- 350 grams of minced meat;
- salt;
- 7 peppers;
- 1 tomato;
- bulb;
- 0.5 liters of water;
- mint - 10 grams;
- potatoes - 100 grams.
Cooking time: 55 minutes.
Calories per 100 grams: 182 kcal.
- Peppers are washed, the cap is cut off, the seeds are removed;
- The skins are removed from the tomatoes, they are cut into pieces and crushed with a blender;
- Peel onions, chop, fry in olive oil until transparent;
- In a deep bowl, shift the onion, minced meat, chopped mint and parsley, a lot of tomatoes, salt, add spices to taste, mix;
- Stuffed vegetables with minced meat, put them in a saucepan, cover them with tails and put them in slices of potatoes so that the vegetables do not fall during cooking;
- Pour water into a saucepan, cook on low heat for 40 minutes.
Despite the fact that this dish is prepared without rice, it turns out to be no less tasty, juicy and fragrant. In addition, you can also add feta cheese, almonds to the filling.
Stuffed Peppers with Champignons
If the family does not eat all the meat, this dish can be prepared without it. It turns out diet and vegetarian option.
Ingredients:
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- peppers - 5 pieces;
- salt;
- 2 onions;
- dill;
- spice;
- champignons - 0.3 kilograms.
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Calories per 100 grams: 107 kcal.
- Peppers to sort, wash, cut the tops and remove the seeds;
- Mushrooms cut into cubes of medium size, onions - a little smaller, carrots rubbed on a grater;
- In a hot frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the onion first, then add mushrooms and carrots and simmer for another 10 minutes, put spices, chopped greens and salt to taste, mix;
- Put the stuffing in a bowl, cool, add grated cheese, mix;
- Stuff vegetables, put them into shape and bake for half an hour in the oven at 200 degrees.
To make the dish more tasty and not bland, in the process of preparing the filling, you can add to it coriander, oregano, ground pepper, dried basil.
Cooking Tips
To keep the peppers beautiful and after cooking, it is best during their preparation to cut the top with a knife, and then cover it with minced meat. In this case, it can be used to decorate a dish that will look even more beautiful.
Mince is best done independently from fresh meat. In stores, it is often made from waste and spoiled products that can harm health and lead to poisoning.
A very detailed step-by-step recipe for stuffing peppers is in the following video.
